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2019 ICF WILDWATER CANOEING JUNIORS & U23 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS BANJA LUKA - 2019 2019 ICF WILDWATER CANOEING JUNIORS & U23 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS BANJA LUKA - VRBAS 2019

Mayor`s word of welcome Igor Radojičić Mayor of the City of Banja Luka

Dear friends and esteemed parcipants of the World Championships,

Banja Luka and the Vrbas River, our gem of nature, welcome you full-heartedly in their wide embrace, happy to have the opportunity of welcoming parcipants of another global compeon in water sports.

Our city is already renowned for hosng many compeons not only in wildwater canoeing, but also in many other water sports. Many athletes who had the opportunity to visit Banja Luka and feel the charm of compengon the Vrbas River have beauful memories of our city. I hope that you too will be among them.

I hope that you will enjoy riding on our well prepared canoe course and geng to know our tradional hospitality, which is very famous among all our visitors, be they athletes, arsts or tourists.

The 2019 ICF Junior & U23 Wildwater Canoeing World Championshipscelebrate sports and a healthy lifestyle, compeve spirit, healthy rivalry and fair play. At the same me, this event brings addional opmism and faith in beer life and futurefor our cizens.

Finally, I would like to bid a cordial welcome to all parcipants, their coaches, managers and visitors of this presgious sports event. I hope that you will achieve expected results and have a pleasant me in Banja Luka.

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Dear athletes, Sonja Davidović The Ministry of Family, Youth and Sports within the Government of the

I am highly honored to invite you to come to Banjaluka to relish the beaues of the city and the most beauful river that flows through these areas – the Vrbas river.

In the past few years, wildwater canoeing has been in expansionin this regionand I am confident that the 2019 ICF Juniors & U23 Wildwater Canoeing World Championships, at which all the aracons of the sport will be presented, will contribute to popularizaon and promoon of it, as well as ohe potenal and natural beaues of the Vrbas and Banjaluka. I am convinced that both sides will be mutually sasfied and savor the joys of invested efforts, which will result in extraordinary outcome.

On behalf of the Ministry of Family,Youth and Sports, I want to express my gratude to all of the members of the Internaonal Canoe Federaon, who contributed in making Banjaluka world's center of wildwatercanoeingin those couple of days. Concurrently, on behalf of organizers, I welcome and wish luck to all the contestants and I believe they will achieve their best personal and team results right here, in our city.

Withal, dear athletes, I wish Banjaluka and the Vrbas river to remain in your most precious memory, to come again, be our dear guests and enjoy as tourists, not just as competors. As organizers of the 2019 ICF Juniors & U23 Wildwater Canoeing World Championships, we have put our best efforts to ensure you the best possible condions for the tournament, as well as your stay. I am sure that you will enjoy our hospitality and be the best promoters of our city and river all over the world.

I believe that, on this compeon, you will make your dreams come true, for we, together with the members of ''Vrbas'' Canoe Club , have made great efforts to provide all the necessary condions for it.

We send you kind regards with a message that Banjalukans await you with open hearts, for they know no other way.

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Basic informaons

Kayak Canoe Club “Vrbas” from Banjaluka has been a host for a long me and a successful organizer of the Naonal and Internaonal canoe compeons in Slalom and Wildwater canoeing disciplines, of which we mark:

- 2011 ECA SLALOM JUNIORS & U23 EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS - 2012 ICF WILDWATER CANOEING WORLD CUP FINAL - 2013 ICF WILDWATER CANOEING WORLD CUP 1 & 2 - 2014 ECA WILDWATER CANOEING JUNIORS EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS - 2015 ECA WILDWATER CANOEING EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS - 2016 ICF WILDWATER CANOEING WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS - 2018 ICF WILDWATER CANOEING WORLD CUP 1 & 2

We have a natural course in a of the Vrbas river which is equipped with the most modern lighng for night races and plaorms which can accept about 1500 spectators and there is our plan to widen our plaorm and increase capacies o f sing places on the course.

There is a regulaon hydropowerplant, 15 kilometers far, with which we have a great co-operaon and this way an excellent control of water level on the compeon course.

The canoe course is by the Road M16 Banjaluka- and it is about 12 kilometers far from Banjaluka. In the period of the compeons, with the co-operaon of the city authories, it is closed and it will be used the round road Banjaluka-Cadjavica-Mrkonjic Grad.

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About Course Vrbas river is mountain river with a several wild secons and fast rapids. Vrbas river consists of two , a canyon Tijesno (5 km) on which is a canoe course and a canyon Podmilacje (8 km). Internaonal qualificaon of the difficulty of the flowing in the canyon Tijesno is III and IV degree of wildwater and depending on a water level. Water level is from 25-120 m3 and in the spring even to 500m3 .

Water temperature in the summer is above 17 C and air temperature is above 30 C degrees. Wildwater canoeing sprint course length is flexible and it can be used up to 800 m according to needs and it is part of the wildwater canoeing classic course 5 kilometers long. It is approachable with many ways and steps and it is secured with two electrical gates for dragging out in the case of accidents and injures.

There is an ambulance close to the course, about 2 kilometers far.

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About City

CITY- Banjaluka ZIP CCODE- 78000 CITY AREA- 1239 KM2 POPULATION- 199.200 COORDINATES- 44◦46 south 17◦11 east TELEPHONE CODE- +387 51 SEA-LEVEL HEIGHT – 164 m - Central European GTM+1h (End of March – beginning of October GTM + 1h )

City of Banja Luka according to a populaon number is the second largest city in -Herzegovina and it is a cultural, financial, and polical and university center of Republic of Srpska (one entet in ). It is situated in the north-west part of the Republic, in the ravine, on the transit between Dinarske Mountains in the south and Panonska lowland in the north.

The main flowing is Vrbas River which flows through the city center. The city has a medium connental climate, with the prevailing influence of Panonic space. Average annual temperature is 10,5 C◦, medium January is -0,3 C ◦, while in July it is 20,1 C ◦.

Average annual amount of precipita ons for Banjaluka is 1044; 58 mm (liters per m2). Average number of precipitated days is 157.5. Average number of snowy days is about 50. In Banjaluka, north and north-east and northwest-west winds prevail.

Proporonal high frequency of silence shows that in Banjaluka area during the year about 40 % of the days are without wind.

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City Partners

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Zagreb 167 km 332 km 230 km Split 263 km 327 km Osijek 217 km 226 km

AIRPORT Banjaluka Info phone: +387 51 535 210

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RESERVATIONS AND ACCOMMODATION INFO:

Kralja Petra I Karađorđevića 109, 78000 Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina Tel.: +387 51 492 493 Mob.: +387 66 33 33 01 E-mail: [email protected] Webpage: www.travelplan.ba

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UNOFFICIAL SCHEDULE

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ACCREDITATION FEE 80,00 Bank charges must be payed by remier.

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CONTACT INFORMATIONS

Kajak kanu klub “VRBAS” Banja Luka Address: Save Kovačevića 44 78000 Banja Luka Republika Srpska, i Hercegovina

E-mail: [email protected] Tel/fax: +387(0)51 253 301 Cell: +387(0)65 912 314 +387(0)66 439 439

Person in charge: Nikola Stanković e-mail: [email protected]

ACCOMODATION E-mail: [email protected] Tel.: +387 51 492 493 Mob.: +387 66 33 33 01 Webpage: www.travelplan.ba

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